SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday asked Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik to withdraw his purported comments that the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister was a beneficiary of now-abandoned Roshni scheme, failing which legal action will be taken against him. “False & unsavoury utterances of Satya Pal Malik about me being a […]
NEW DELHI — Former Bangladesh cricket captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has condemned the recent attacks against the Hindu community in his country, saying this is “not the red and green we wanted to see”. In a Facebook post written in Bangla Monday, Mortaza said this is the loss of an entire nation. “We witnessed two […]
BANDIPORA — Atleast 50 people have fallen ill after consuming Wazwan at a marriage party in Lawaypora village of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Wednesday, officials said here. Officials told that the around 50 wedding guests complained of vomiting and loose—motion after they consumed the feast at the marriage party at Lawaypora. “Hearing this incident, […]
HYDERABAD — AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi Tuesday slammed the Narendra Modi government for allowing the Indian cricket team to play a T20 match with Pakistan at a time when “our soldiers are being killed in Kashmir”. India is scheduled to play the first match of T20 World Cup against Pakistan in Dubai October 24. Addressing […]
SRINAGAR — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths Wednesday raided multiple locations in Kashmir Valley in connection with case FIR no- RC-29/2021/NIA/DLI “hatching of conspiracy for undertaking violent terrorist acts in J-K and other major cities, by cadres of proscribed terrorist organisations Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al Badr and their affiliates”. Reliable sources […]
NEW DELHI — Social media giant Facebook Inc is planning to rebrand itself with a new name next week, the Verge reported on Tuesday, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter. Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about the name change at the company’s annual Connect conference on Oct. 28, but […]
NEW DELHI — The chances of a third Covid-19 wave appear remote under the “present circumstances” with only the Delta and its derivatives as the main SARS-CoV-2 variants in circulation and the weekly caseload dropping steadily, as per experts. “We need to forget about the third wave for the moment. If it does come up, […]
NEW DELHI — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will soon take over probe into the recent civilian killings in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), sources in the security setup said on Tuesday. The agency will investigate four cases involving pharmaceutical dealer ML Bindroo, street vendor Virendra Paswan and school teachers Supinder Kour and Deepak Chand, all […]
JAMMU — Three members of a family were arrested for smuggling drugs and Rs 1.6 lakh recovered from them in Jammu district on Tuesday, officials said. A police team stopped a man, his father and mother at a checkpoint near Chorli Kothey in Bishnah belt. They signalled to stop for checking and instead of stopping, […]
SRINAGAR — The weatherman on Tuesday forecast heavy rains and snow at many places of Jammu and Kashmir, mainly on October 23, and said that the wet spell could damage orchards and lead to temporary disruption of major highways on hilly areas. “A fresh spell of widespread moderate rain/snow is most likely during 23rd October […]